The Holmes Group

It is with sadness to say goodbye to both Thu and Katrina. We sincerely thank them for their invaluable contribution towards keeping the operations of the group smooth. Good luck in your future endeavours, Thu and Katrina!

James was awarded the Best Poster Prize for Symposium II: Emerging Nanophotonic Materials and Devices in the recently concluded MRS Spring 2014 in San Francisco, CA. He was also successful in obtaining a competitive scholarship for overseas travel.

New group members have joined the Holmes Group. Postdoctoral researchers: Dr Yu-Ying Lai and Dr Shirong Lu. Postgraduate students: Mr Paul Geraghty, a PhD student under Dr David Jones and Prof Ken Ghiggino; Mr Quentin Hong, an Honours student under Dr Wallace Wong. We welcome Dr Alexander Colsmann and Dr Christian Kayser from Lichttechnisches Institut in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. They will be visiting our group for two weeks.

Congratulations to Dr Wallace Wong for being successful in this 2014 ARC Future Fellowship round. Wallace has acquired AU$ 755,320 of funding for his research on self-assembly of conjugated polymer materials.

Francois has finished his 6-month stay in the group working with new polymerization methods for optoelectronic applications. He is going back to Université Laval to continue his research. Good luck Francois!

We welcome our two MSc students – Dean Van As and Bolong Zhang; a new PhD student – Valerie Mitchell; and new postdoc – Dr Michael Klein. Dean and Bolong are both working with Dr Wallace Wong on new OPV materials. Valerie will be working with Dr David Jones and Prof Ken Ghiggino on block copolymers.